Dr. Jim Denison and Jessica Steed examine and discuss the idea of “Christ and culture in paradox”. This principle describes the idea that the Church and/or Christians engage in culture (without trying to change it) in order to observe and hopefully have gospel-centered conversations. An example of this can be found when Daniel used his dietary convictions to show God’s superiority but never tried to change the culture’s established dietary code.
Dr. Jim Denison and Jessica Steed examine and discuss the idea of “Christ above culture”. This principle describes the idea that the Church and/or Christians can seemingly try to live in two different worlds: the spiritual and the secular. Jim provides the example of Jesus and the woman at the we...
Dr. Jim Denison and Jessica Steed examine and discuss the idea of “Christ of culture”. This principle describes the idea that the Church and/or Christians will go where the culture is going. While this might seem like a completely negative concept, Jim brings forth the positive example of Paul in...
Dr. Jim Denison and Jessica Steed examine and discuss the idea of “Christ against culture”. This principle simply means that in some instances Christians should not engage in certain facets of culture. Some references from the Bible of this practice come from Acts 10 and Galatians 3. In this epis...
